The report comes as the U.S. sees its first case of a person catching coronavirus twice.
She arrived at the emergency department with a severe cough and fever. A swab test showed she was positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. After five days her symptoms had largely subsided and she was discharged.
After analyzing the viral genomes from her first and second positive coronavirus tests, researchers found they were different strains, showing she had been reinfected with the virus, rather than the second test being the result of the first infection and"prolonged shedding." The case report comes as the U.S. records its first reinfection case—a 25-year-old man from Nevada who tested positive in April and June with two different variants of the virus. His case, published in The, like the woman from the Netherlands, shows reinfection can take place in just a couple of months.
Simon Clarke, Associate Professor of Cellular Microbiology at the University of Reading, U.K., who was not involved in the study, said the Nevada cases show that reinfections are possible. How common this may be remains to be seen, however.
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